Frabjous Times

space scifaiku poetry lucan-no-haiku

Ink blood

lucan-no-haiku
blueprint
lined
papyri
mere human eyes
palimpsestic megaliths
they point the approved pathways to paradise

darling
I
know your mind
here’s my number
I’m sorry for the vastness
but it is thus to circumscribe your passion
A syllabic verse form following the first few terms 2-1-3-4-7-11 of the Lucas numbers.
Graham’s number, named after Ronald Graham, is often described as the largest number that has ever been seriously used in a mathematical proof. It is too large to be written in scientific notation because even the digits in the exponent would exceed the number of particles in the visible universe, so it needs special notation to write down.”
Last modified: Sun Jul 30 01:47:00 EDT 2006
Added number verse.
Previously published: Sat Jul 29 22:26:03 2006